Kurt Brown

Kurt Brown is the editor of Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars (1994) and, Verse & Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics (1998), both from Milkweed Editions. He is also co-editor, with his wife, of Night Out (Milkweed Editions). He has edited three books of lectures delivered at American writers’ conferences, including Facing the Lion (Beacon Press), and a collection of essays, The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science (University of Georgia Press). His poetry publications are Return of the Prodigals (Four Way Books), More Things in Heaven and Earth (Four Way Books), and Fables from the Ark (WordTech), which won the 2003 Custom Words Prize. Forthcoming poetry books are Future Ship (Red Hen Press, 2007) and From Here (2008). Brown is also the author of five award winning poetry chapbooks, published by various presses, and was the Bruce McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.